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. 2011 Jan 27;134(2):415–431. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq369

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Effects of syntactic ambiguity in patients. (A) Patients show an overall effect of ambiguity in right inferior frontal gyrus (BA 45 extending to BA 47) and left inferior parietal lobule, angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus. (B) Sentences using the dominant continuation of the ambiguous phrase activate left inferior parietal lobule, angular gyrus and supramarginal gyrus. (C) Sentences using the subordinate continuation activate right inferior frontal gyrus (BA 45 extending to BA 47) and bilateral posterior middle temporal gyrus (extending to angular gyrus). (Note: there were no significant differences between subordinate and dominant sentences in patients). Voxel-level threshold P < 0.01; cluster-level threshold P < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons.